A rare not-so-quiet minute or two in the scattered mind of a scrapper, a mother, a wifey, a photographer wannabe, a typist, a shopper, a spender, a day-dreamer, a wisher, a lazybum, a stand up newbie, a karaoke wannabe, a flea marketer, a tea cup collector, proudly tattooed, prettily pierced and definitely a scatterbrain!

Friday, 27 April 2007

Slowly Conquering the Crosstrainer of Death!

I'm a bit keen on the whole gym thing and I figure if I'm paying for it then I may as well get my worth out of it. So I went yesterday morning after I dropped Caeligh at kindy yesterday and did 20 minutes on the treadmill, 20 minutes on the bike, shifted a total of 300kg on the chest press (and oh yeah baby I'm feeling it this morning!!!! lol) and then I did TEN WHOLE MINUTES on the Crosstrainer of Death!!!! I was so impressed. I only did six minutes a couple of days ago and was hoping to just better it - even by a minute - but I felt okay so just put my head down and kept going until I got to the ten minute mark. I can say though that the last minute and a half were hard!!!!

Went in again last night and figured I'd try a different approach so I hit the Crosstrainer of Death as soon as I arrived. I figured I'm already tired by the time I get to it after doing the treadmill and bike first so I wanted to see how far I could go so I jumped on and did 15 MINUTE plus a 3 minute cool down. I was so impressed with myself cos I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to do much more than 10 minutes.

I'll let you in on a secret though - the Crosstrainer of Death actually burns about 50% more calories than either the treadmill or the bike and I figure if I can get more results with less time then maybe the Crosstrainer of Death is going to become my favourite machine!!!!

i luuuuurve the crosstrainer.. its my weapon of choice at the gym.. though i must say, it took having a talk to it and tell it whos boss for it to become my favourite though. Great work.. keep it up... you'll be flying on that thing before you know it!

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Mama to three boys and one now medicated princess of a little girl, wifey to Doug, my planet alignment specialist and Scottish sexy beast, slave of furkids Jess the cattledog, and Towser, Ally, Mishka and Yoda (our sphinxy cat), plus a varied assortment of fighting fish and one hermit crab. STILL working all kinds of long and weird hours as a medical typist, and around that I cram in scrapping (not so much anymore), photography, reading (sometimes only in the bathroom), TV (seems like only after 9pm these days), beach-goin' at every chance and too much housework to mention! Did I mention I'm scatterbrained - not proud of it but I figure everyone's used to it by now!